Win an audio book a month
We have teamed up with audio book publishers AudioGO to offer you a fantastic opportunity to win an audio book of your choice throughout 2012. We are launching the competition in this issue and to kick things off in style the prize this month is audio books or downloads of your choice worth up to £50.
Watch out for your next chance to win an audio book worth up to £25 (download or on CD) in our monthly email newsletters, throughout 2012 so don't miss out - make sure we have your email address - call the Helpline on 0303 123 9999.
If you don't have access to email or the internet, give our Reader Services Team a call on 0161 406 2524. Good luck!
The questions
In fiction, as in life, the unreliable narrator is a first person narrator within a book that the reader has reason not to trust. The narrator may be unreliable for many reasons - guilt, insanity or just plain bad.
How reliable is your knowledge about the unreliable narrator perspective?
-
Which Agatha Christie novel famously uses an unreliable narrator?
-
Who wrote One flew over the cuckoo's nest?
-
Which Iain Banks book begins with these words: "Apparently I am what is known as an unreliable narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get"?
-
Who wrote An instance of the fingerpost, which has several narrators, all of whom are varieties of unreliable narrator?
-
Which unreliable narrator signposts his nature with these words: "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible."?
-
Who was the infamous unreliable narrator created by Mark Twain?
Send your answers to Deb Ryan by email at dryan@rnib.org.uk, telephone 0161 355 2082 or mail to RNIB National Library service, Far Cromwell Road, Bredbury, Stockport SK6 2SG by 1 June 2012.
AudioGo titles
AudioGO (the home of BBC Audiobooks) publishes an extensive range of drama, comedy and factual programmes from BBC Radio, in addition to abridged and unabridged recordings by bestselling authors. Most titles are available in both CD and download format. To see the full range by visit the
AudioGO website
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
A bittersweet memoir filled with keen observations about life, with its missed opportunities and misunderstandings, its small pleasures and poignant retributions peppered with comic episodes, this latest novel by Julian Barnes makes wonderful listening. In this new release narrator Richard Morant brings just the right blend of humour, disbelief and regret to this profound and moving story.
Running Time:4hrs 37mins
Format: Download or 4 CDs
DLRRP:£12.29
CD RRP £15.00
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
"As I sleep, my mind will erase everything I did today. I will wake up tomorrow as I did this morning. Thinking I'm still a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime of choice ahead of me ..." Memories define us. So what if you lost yours every time you went to sleep? And the one person you trust may only be telling you half the story. Welcome to Christine's life.
Reader: Susannah Harker
Running Time:12hrs 14mins
10 CDs
CD RRP £23.50
Dick Barton and the vulture
In the first story of the second radio series, Barton is on the trail of Tony Patelli, a criminal mastermind who has stolen a lorry-load of gold bullion. Can Barton save a kidnapped girl from Patelli's clutches? Can he defeat the Vulture? Find out in this next exciting instalment of "Dick Barton - Special Agent!"
Full-cast radio drama
Running time: 3 hours 35 minutes
Format: Download £12.29 or 4 CDs £18.35